During the era of industrialization, the Soviet Union attracted foreign specialists from all over the world. One of them was a young black American, Robert Robinson, who came from the Ford plant to the Stalingrad Tractor Plant in the summer of 1930 to work and train Soviet workers. The USSR then offered salaries twice as high as one could expect to receive in the Great Depression-stricken USA. For his conscientious work and innovative achievements, Comrade Robinson, a non-partisan black American citizen and deeply religious man, was elected to the Moscow Soviet in 1934, without knowing what this will mean for him. Having shared the fate of millions of workers of the USSR, Robert Robinson survived the Stalinist purges, the Great Patriotic War, the omnipresent surveillance of the KGB and fully drank the delights of Soviet reality, including the “non-existent” everyday racism in the Soviet Union. Robinson managed to escape from the USSR only 44 years later - in 1974, at the age of 67. They could not make him a communist: his strong faith in God got in the way, but it helped him remain a detached, sober, albeit sometimes naive, observer of a huge segment of our daily life - from Stalin to Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Book produced by the InterWorld Book Forge. Follow the new products! Book Forge/ 816942508355261?refu003daymt_homepage_panel—Book Forge group on Facebook.